That Noble Dream

That Noble Dream
Author: Peter Novick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 580
Release: 1988-09-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 110726829X

The aspiration to relate the past 'as it really happened' has been the central goal of American professional historians since the late nineteenth century. In this remarkable history of the profession, Peter Novick shows how the idea and ideal of objectivity were elaborated, challenged, modified, and defended over the last century. Drawing on the unpublished correspondence as well as the published writings of hundreds of American historians from J. Franklin Jameson and Charles Beard to Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and Eugene Genovese, That Noble Dream is a richly textured account of what American historians have thought they were doing, or ought to be doing, when they wrote history - how their principles influenced their practice and practical exigencies influenced their principles.

That Noble Dream

That Noble Dream
Author: Peter Novick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 80
Release: 1988-09-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780521357456

The evolution of the "idea" and "ideal" of objectivity is traced over the past century from a selection of unpublished as well as published writings of hundreds of American historians.

That Noble Dream

That Noble Dream
Author: Peter Novick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 580
Release: 1988-09-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780521343282

The aspiration to relate the past 'as it really happened' has been the central goal of American professional historians since the late nineteenth century. In this remarkable history of the profession, Peter Novick shows how the idea and ideal of objectivity were elaborated, challenged, modified, and defended over the last century. Drawing on the unpublished correspondence as well as the published writings of hundreds of American historians from J. Franklin Jameson and Charles Beard to Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and Eugene Genovese, That Noble Dream is a richly textured account of what American historians have thought they were doing, or ought to be doing, when they wrote history - how their principles influenced their practice and practical exigencies influenced their principles.

On the Teaching and Writing of History

On the Teaching and Writing of History
Author: Bernard Bailyn
Publisher: UPNE
Total Pages: 104
Release: 1994
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 9780874517200

Bailyn, a professor at Harvard and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, writes of the impossibility of teaching history without bias, and that history itself is constantly open to new interpretations and viewpoints.

Charles Austin Beard

Charles Austin Beard
Author: Richard Drake
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2018-12-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1501715143

Richard Drake presents a new interpretation of Charles Austin Beard's life and work. The foremost American historian and a leading public intellectual in the first half of the twentieth century, Beard participated actively in the debates about American politics and foreign policy surrounding the two world wars. In a radical change of critical focus, Charles Austin Beard places the European dimension of Beard's thought at the center, correcting previous biographers' oversights and presenting a far more nuanced appreciation for Beard's life. Drake analyzes the stages of Beard's development as a historian and critic: his role as an intellectual leader in the Progressive movement, the support that he gave to the cause of American intervention in World War I, and his subsequent revisionist repudiation of Wilsonian ideals and embrace of non-interventionism in the lead-up to World War II. Charles Austin Beard shows that, as Americans tally the ruinous costs—both financial and moral—of nation-building and informal empire, the life and work of this prophet of history merit a thorough reexamination.

A Book of Dreams

A Book of Dreams
Author: Peter Reich
Publisher: Peter Reich
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2011-02-08
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1458179281

The Holocaust In American Life

The Holocaust In American Life
Author: Peter Novick
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2000-09-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 0547349610

Prize-winning historian Peter Novick illuminates the reasons Americans ignored the Holocaust for so long -- how dwelling on German crimes interfered with Cold War mobilization; how American Jews, not wanting to be thought of as victims, avoided the subject. He explores in absorbing detail the decisions that later moved the Holocaust to the center of American life: Jewish leaders invoking its memory to muster support for Israel and to come out on top in a sordid competition over what group had suffered most; politicians using it to score points with Jewish voters. With insight and sensitivity, Novick raises searching questions about these developments. Have American Jews, by making the Holocaust the emblematic Jewish experience, given Hitler a posthumous victory, tacitly endorsing his definition of Jews as despised pariahs? Does the Holocaust really teach useful lessons and sensitize us to atrocities, or, by making the Holocaust the measure, does it make lesser crimes seem "not so bad"? What are we to make of the fact that while Americans spend hundreds of millions of dollars for museums recording a European crime, there is no museum of American slavery?

The Resistance Versus Vichy

The Resistance Versus Vichy
Author: Peter Novick
Publisher:
Total Pages: 286
Release: 1968
Genre: Criminal justice, Administration of
ISBN:

"Vichy France, officially the French State (État français), was France during the regime of Marshal Philippe Pétain, during World War II, from the German victory in the Battle of France (July 1940) to the Allied liberation in August 1944. Following the defeat in June 1940, President Albert Lebrun appointed Marshal Pétain as Premier of France. After making peace with Germany, Pétain and his government voted to reorganize the discredited Third Republic into an authoritarian regime."--Wikipedia.

A Companion to Western Historical Thought

A Companion to Western Historical Thought
Author: Lloyd Kramer
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 536
Release: 2008-04-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0585470936

This broad survey introduces readers to the major themes, figures,traditions and theories in Western historical thought, tracing itsevolution from biblical times to the present. Surveys the evolution of historical thought in the WesternWorld from biblical times to the present day. Provides students with the background to contemporaryhistorical debates and approaches. Serves as a useful reference for researchers andteachers. Includes chapters by 24 leading historians.

Alphabet of Dreams

Alphabet of Dreams
Author: Susan Fletcher
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2006-09
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0689850425

Mitra and her brother Babak are exiled royals living on the streets as orphaned beggars. Babak possesses a strange gift of being able to know someone's dreams, and soon they find themselves on the road to Bethlehem in this biblical epic.